Xen support

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:42:53PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Onkar Mahajan wrote:
> > Thanks Pasi for your concern.
> > 
> > I will try with Xen 4.0.0 and may be write a small How-to for beginners to
> > follow.
> > 
> As far as I know, Xen 4.0.0 and the latest release of 3.x.x require a PAE CPU. 
> That means that some older hardware running xen will stop working if you upgrade.
> 
> I saw that in the xen list, if you write something for beginners it would be a 
> good thing to mention.
> 

Yes, for PV (paravirtual) guests Xen requires PAE on 32bit systems. 
I think it was Xen 3.3.0 that was the first version to require PAE.

32bit Xen HVM guests don't need to be PAE.

-- Pasi